About the Artwork
Floridian Homestead, Chocaliska Island
between 1840 and 1905
Robert Swain Gifford
1840-1905
American
Unknown
Brush and black wash with white gouache over pencil on cream wove mat board
Sheet: 7 × 10 inches (17.8 × 25.4 cm)
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Gift of the Archives of American Art
56.174
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: R. Swain Gifford
Inscribed, in graphite, top portion of object, verso: A Floridian Homestead | Chocaliska Island | Furnam House - Indian Shell Mounds | Cruise of the Wallosy | Eng-May HMA | Aug 15/84 | 2 col
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1956-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Robert Swain Gifford, Floridian Homestead, Chocaliska Island, between 1840 and 1905, brush and black wash with white gouache over pencil on cream wove mat board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Archives of American Art, 56.174.
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